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Types of Interior Spaces

retail spaces
shops, banks, showrooms, restaurants and bars
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 Display and selling

 Display space that is reflective of the
brand values of the business.
Brand Values
 Re-branding an existing business or
establishing the brand values for a new
All commercial organizations
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 Values and aspirations of the are focused on building and
company
maintaining their business by
 Understanding of the way that
materials, colors and forms are identifying their target customer and
perceived by the target market.
ensuring that the company and the
 Design considerations: product are perceived as matching
• Ergonomics
the personal standards and aspirations
• Anthropometrics
• Lighting of the customer.
• Comfort and security of the customers
and staff

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Apple Digital Lifestyle Concept
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 Hard materials – bright acoustics
 Carpeted, heavily curtained and soft
furnished space – muted, respectful
ambience
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 Choice of materials
• perceptions of quality
• Acoustic ambience – large group of
people
 Hard materials – metals, ceramic,
plaster, plastic laminates
• Create an acoustically ‘bright’
environment.
 Cheap-and-cheerful, or
dynamic and sophisticated acoustics
• Depend on the quality, finish and
colors of the materials chosen
• Secondary elements – choice of
NikeTown
furniture
work spaces
offices, workshops, studios, factories
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 Process-driven:
• Organized to suit the sequence,
mode of work and philosophy of the
operation they house.  In modern business, it is recognized that
a healthy, alert workforce is good for
 Considerations: profit as well as good for the individual.
• Quality of the activity
• values of the company  Creation of new types of places that
encourage a more collaborative
 Moved away from the traditional approach to work.
hierarchical arrangement that
encouraged a sedentary acceptance of
role and position.

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 Inclusion of exercise and

relaxation zones in close
proximity to the workstation.

 These zones have generated Mother

ancillary spaces:
• showers and changing
facilities – for users of the
exercise facilities and for
those who cycle to work
London, United Kingdom
Clive Wilkinson Architects
 An example of a workplace that embodies
strong identity within a dynamic work
environment.

• Kitchens and food stores to

support catering.

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 Very personal environments

• Great degree of control over layout,
furnishings and visual qualities

 Hotels, hostels, and care homes

• Universal, rather than personal,
solution

 Common for residential and hotel:

• Comfort
• Consideration of furniture layouts
• Arrangement of facilities
• Enjoyment of light and view
• Provision of adequate storage

living spaces
residential buildings, hotel accommodation
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Hotel Duomo
Royalton Hotel Rimini
New York Ron Arad
Philippe Starck
 Used seamless materials and

 A compelling mix of hard edges, high- invisible fixings to create

luminance color and hushed luxury interiors of great clarity and

a sense of airiness.

 Showed attention to detail

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 Required to accommodate great

numbers of people

 Have parallels with town planning.

• Need for directed movement
(streets)
• Display and merchandising activity
(the market square)
• Zones of relaxation (cafés and
seating)

 One of the most difficult design tasks is

to express a sense of identity and
purpose for small facilities in large
spaces.

public spaces  Transport and religious buildings:

• Majestic in scale
airports, railway and bus stations, cinemas and • Very strong architectural identities
theatres, museums and galleries, religious buildings
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Pilgrim Chapel (Notre Dame du Haut) Church of Light Madrid-Barajas Airport Terminal
Ronchamp Osaka Richard Rogers
Le Corbusier Tadao Ando

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Journey starting at the

 The need for an atmosphere that fits the
street door
image of both the facility and the client:
• generating quiet spaces of Zen-like
tranquility
• creating powerful environments of
Procession of events and
such positivity
activities
 Each of those events or activities will have
its own needs and agenda, but most
importantly, act as preparation for the
Delivering
core event.
people in an improved
condition, back to the
 None of these are single-space events.
outside world

restorative spaces
hospitals, clinics, spas, gymnasiums
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Dental Clinic
Kurfürstendamm, Berlin

 Good example of a designed response to the:

• Range of activity
• Reinvention of practice based on the economic
pressures of modern dental care

 Rooms:
• Treatment rooms served by a waiting space
• Dental laboratory
• Coffee/Internet lounge
• Homeopathic surgery

 Spaces rendered with bright orange – experience is

welcoming and stimulating.
transient spaces
exhibition and display
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There are occasions where boundaries are blurred

 Affected by the trends and or where the design brief encompasses more than one category.
pressures of fashion
What matters is that
 Capture people’s attention
the designer has a clear understanding
 Display and promote information
of the functional needs of the project
 Exhibition – fresh and original way
consistent with the exhibited object and the creative vision

 Trade stand: to ensure that these can be fulfilled

• Values of the company
• Attract the corporate client in a way that will
• Understanding of marketing
strategy create the appropriate emotional response

to the building’s user.

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